Top 90 Danielle Paige Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You’re almost there already. Just imagine what you want to happen. And then concentrate on that, and only on that. The magic is everywhere. It’s waiting for you to take it and make it your own.”

— Danielle Paige

2. “Home isn’t just where you’re born – it’s where you belong.”

— Danielle Paige

3. “Looking at Flat Hill made me strangely grateful for the tornado that had given me a free ride out of this hellhole. Sure, things had been tough in Oz, but at least a lot of the time they’d been beautiful, too. Most of the people I went to high school with wouldn’t ever see the next state over, let alone a flying monkey or a waterfall made out of rainbows.”

— Danielle Paige

4. “You don’t have to promise me the moon or the stars, just promise me you will stand under them with me.”

— Danielle Paige

5. “Evil will always catch up with you. That’s why you have to get to it first.”

— Danielle Paige

6. “I shivered. The story was true. The Wizard of Oz had been real. Dorothy Gale had really been swept up by a tornado and brought to the Land of Oz. True, what I was living now didn’t seem like the kind of storybook tale I was used to. But it didn’t mean they didn’t exist.”

— Danielle Paige

7. “I was all sharp edges and angles – words that came out too fast and at the wrong times.”

— Danielle Paige

8. “Simple. You’re going to kill her.” She looked right at me and said, “Dorothy must die.”

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9. “The more you see of evil, the more evil seems limitless. I guess the same goes for good, but I haven’t seen as much of that.”

— Danielle Paige

10. “And you’re right. You are on your own. We all are, and we all have to learn it sooner or later. If you have to be alone, though, wouldn’t you rather be alone among friends?”

— Danielle Paige

11. “Kings and queens come and go, but power stays with the powerful. You don’t have to be the King of Oz to rule it.”

— Danielle Paige

12. “If I was going down, I was going down fighting.”

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13. “I turned back. Just put one foot in front of the other. Nothing had changed except the color of the road.”

— Danielle Paige

14. “It made such perfect sense that I felt stupid for not thinking of it earlier. Duh. You couldn’t find the Island of Lost Things until you had gotten yourself lost beyond any hope of finding. If I’d given up an hour, or a day ago, it would have appeared that much quicker. So much for quitters never win.”

— Danielle Paige

15. “The Wicked Witch of the West, she had some good ideas. How about a little fire, Scarecrow?”

— Danielle Paige

16. “No matter how tough you think you are, there are certain things that just get to you, and they’re usually the little things. The ones you don’t expect.”

— Danielle Paige

17. “Power will always corrupt those who have not learned to serve it properly” -Lurline.”

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18. “He was beautiful. He was too beautiful. It was the kind of beautiful that can almost seem ugly; the kind of beautiful you don’t want to touch, because you know it might burn. I wasn’t used to talking to people who looked like him. I wasn’t used to being near people who looked like him. But he had saved my life.”

— Danielle Paige

19. “But really what I mean by crappy is, like – you know – not very good at it. Like, if there were a Witch Mall, Glamora would work at Witch Neiman Marcus, Mombi would work at Witch Talbot’s and I would work at the Witch Dollar Store, where people would only come to buy witch paper towels, six rolls for ninety-nine cents.”

— Danielle Paige

20. “You are not crazy, Snow. You were just lied to. You are not evil. You have magic. It’s not a curse. It’s a gift. I may be a liar, but I this much is true.”

— Danielle Paige

21. “Once you’ve traveled to the dark side of the rainbow, you’ve reached the end of the line.”

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22. “I kept my antennae up for intel, but the only subject of conversation was Dorothy. Which should have been a good thing, considering that she was the one I was really here to learn about. Unfortunately, no one was sharing any useful information. It was all about how beautiful Dorothy was, or how kind she was, or how lucky we were to be working for the greatest person in all of Oz. It was weird. They were like a creepy, overeager maid sorority.”

— Danielle Paige

23. “You love the fight more than you love what you are fighting for.”

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24. “What had I done to make them think I was a potential teen girl assassin?”

— Danielle Paige

25. “My real wizardry has nothing to do with spells at all. It has to do with knowledge.”

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26. “Forgiveness can get you places, I guess. But sometimes you need to light a fire.”

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27. “Magic can’t exist without goodness. Goodness can’t exist without wickedness. And Oz can’t exist without magic.”

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28. “She had been both good and wicked and everything in between. She had been both at once, too, until it was hard for her to even tell the difference anymore.”

— Danielle Paige

29. “Somewhere inside you, I hope you know who you are. I hope you know what you are. I hope you know that you’re powerful. We need you.”

— Danielle Paige

30. “Look, fear’s not always rational, okay? Anyway, there’s a difference between being afraid and being a coward. At least there was one thing I could take comfort in: if you’re afraid, you must still be a little bit human.”

— Danielle Paige

31. “You’re afraid to do anything but wish for things to happen to you.”

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32. “Sometimes it’s not the thing you want. It’s the promise of the thing you want... I want you to think about me and nothing else for just a second. And in that second, I’ll rob you blind.”

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33. “The monkey village was like the world’s coolest tree house crossed with something out of a Swiss Family Robinson theme party thrown by Martha Stewart.”

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34. “Jagger knew who I was, and I could actually tell him things that I could not say to Kai – or anyone else, really.”

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35. “I had one weakness: kindness. And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it’s a weakness I’m still not sure I’d want to give up entirely.”

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36. “Those who have sacrificed always have the most to lose.”

— Danielle Paige

37. “Madison sparkled like the words on her oversized chest. There was glitter embedded in her eye shadow, in her lip gloss, in her nail polish, hanging from her ears in shoulder grazing hoops, dangling from her wrists in blingy bracelets. If the lights went out in the hallway, she could light it up like a human disco ball.”

— Danielle Paige

38. “None of us are entirely Wicked or entirely Good. Or entirely evil, for that matter. We are made of what shapes us” -Lurline.”

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39. “My name is Amy Gumm – and I’m the other girl from Kansas. I’ve been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. I’ve been trained to fight. And I have a mission: Remove the Tin Woodman’s heart. Steal the Scarecrow’s brain. Take the Lion’s courage. And – Dorothy must die.”

— Danielle Paige

40. “I saw my face, framed by my new pink hair. I’d dyed it myself and the change was still a shock to me. I don’t even know why I’d done it. Maybe I just wanted some color in my stupid, boring gray life.”

— Danielle Paige

41. “I craned my neck back up at the so-called good witch, who was still floating eerily in the sky. How could I come all the way to Oz and pass up a chance to meet the one and only sorceress herself? It was like going to Disney World and not getting your picture taken with Cinderella.”

— Danielle Paige

42. “The despicable crone known as Mombi stands accused of high witchery, gross dishonesty, untold crimes against monkeys, outrageous trespassing, and general unpleasantness. Also, she is extremely unattractive. Miss Amy, do you speak for the witch?”

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43. “The world I grew up in is gone, too,” I said quietly. “But that doesn’t mean I’m going to give up on it. Because if you give up – then what is there left to live for?”

— Danielle Paige

44. “The Wizard was from a place called America, and to him, a female ruler was a strange and unsettling notion.”

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45. “Unchecked anger is a dangerous place from which to draw your magic. It’s difficult to control. It can consume you totally, transform you into something else. Someone you don’t recognize.”

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46. “Good and evil were always changing places with each other.”

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47. “You can’t choose who you are. But you can choose what you’ll become.”

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48. “We breathe out lies; we stutter the truth.”

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49. “And remember as in all of us, it is only your capacity for wickedness that makes selflessness possible.”

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50. “He felt the power but it meant less to him somehow.”

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